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A revolution is coming in the field of global education. Up to now, all leading universities have relied primarily on the deep W

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问题     A revolution is coming in the field of global education. Up to now, all leading universities have relied primarily on the deep Western pool of wisdom to provide both the method and content of their educational systems. This made sense. Western education created the most successful societies humankind has ever seen.
    Asia benefited from Western education even under colonial rule. When the imperialist Lord Macaulay was put in charge of education in British India, he called for English to be the language of instruction. He promised that Indians’ minds would begin to open when they read those English texts. The magic that Macaulay predicted did indeed happen: Western schooling opened Indian minds. The new, confident India of today owes its success at least in part to the influence of Western literature and learning.
    Now a second Asian cultural awakening is upon us. There is a growing realization that the world can learn a lot from, say, Chinese and Indian civilizations, in everything from poetry and philosophy to traditional medicine and strategic thinking. Paradoxically, leading Western institutions are ahead of their Asian counterparts in grasping this. Sadly, most Asian educators have not fully understood how much the world is changing. They are comfortable with the old paradigm of copying the West. But as Asian economies reach the same level as Western ones, this will no longer work. Asian universities will have to reinvent themselves, bringing together the best of Western and Asian learning.
    The degree of adaptation will vary from discipline to discipline. The Asian faculties of science, mathematics and engineering will teach the same curricula as Western universities, but they will have to stop viewing themselves merely as brain factories producing scientists and engineers in large amounts only for economic growth. Creativity and innovation will become more important. The explosive success of American universities stems at least in part from the fact that they are treated not merely as economic units but as the guardians of the souls of their people.
    In the field of social science， the challenges may be even greater. In the multi-civilizational world of the future, the prevailing assumption that all social-science theories are universally applicable and hence there is no need to study other cultures, religions or peoples will appear both strange and irrelevant.
    In advocating an open attitude to all cultures, the new Asian scholars may only be reviving an old Western ideal which declared that educated minds understood both their own cultures and the world. To succeed, Asian universities will have to cultivate equally strong traditions of freedom of spirit and inquiry that have been the hallmark of great American universities throughout the ages. If they can do that, they may even surpass their Western counterparts.
It can be concluded that to equip themselves better, Asian universities are supposed to________.
选项 A、innovate the Western theories
B、carry forward their own traditions
C、absorb the best of Western and Asian cultures
D、fully understand the academic world
答案C
解析 根据题干关键词concluded可知，本题考查的是全文的总论点，可定位至第三段末句，“必须彻底改造亚洲大学，将西方知识和亚洲知识的精髓结合起来”。可见C为正确答案，是对此句的同义替换，且具有概括性。由首段第二句和第三句可知，如今所有一流大学的教育主要以丰富的西方知识库为基础，而这曾经是合情合理的；第三段倒数第二句和第三句则提到，随着亚洲经济水平与西方持平，照搬西方的做法将行不通了。因此作者批判了以西方理论为基础的做法，但没有提出对西方理论进行创新，A项属于无中生有，故排除；B项干扰信息来自末段第二句，作者建议亚洲大学发扬西方的优良传统，而不是自身的优良传统，B项属于偷换概念，故排除；文中找不到D项的相关信息，故排除。
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